- Nostomania -- noun .... An overwhelming desire to return to familiar surroundings, or to one's home.
- It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow.
- A Rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- Bra .... The most important support system a woman can have.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- It takes only about 8 minutes for a Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of over 27,359 kph (17,000 mph).
- The first sport ever filmed was boxing in 1894.
- More than 1 billion people in the world live on less than 1 dollar a day.
- There is an average of 2 earthquakes every minute in the world.
- Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
- The most yolks ever found in a chicken egg was nine.
- The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet,
weighed 24,000 pounds and was found in New Brunswick in 1930.
- An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
- Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left handed people do.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they begin with.
- If the population of China walked past you in a single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- That you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
- Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs have only 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 115 or older.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- The human heart creates enough pressure, when it pumps out to the body, to squirt blood 30 feet.
- The human eye blinks over 10,000,000 times a year.
- A cockroach will live 9 days without its head, before it starves to death.
- An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
- Ancient Romans used human urine as a mouth wash.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
- It is illegal to sell your eye in Texas.
- Taxi drivers in Finland must pay royalties if they play music in their cars for paying customers.
- Arnold Schwarzeneggars' famous line in the Terminator movie "I'll be back", was originally scripted as "I'll come back".
- The average bank teller loses about $250.00 every year.
- The world's longest running reality T.V. show was: The Real World, which first aired in 1992.
- The record for the most extras in a movie is more than 300,000, who appeared in the funeral scene in "Ghandi".
- Anteaters prefer eating termites, to eating ants.
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